The Missing Layer in Agentic AI — Giedrius Šteimantas, Oxylabs
Agentic AI lacks a web access infrastructure layer, making agents slow and unreliable.
“cost matters.”
Oxylabs engineer argues that agentic AI applications fail in production because they rely on browser automation for all web access, which is slow and expensive. The missing layer is purpose-built web scraping infrastructure that lets agents access the open web at scale and low cost. This is a vendor pitch framed as an engineering principle, relevant to teams building web-connected agents but not a broad industry signal.